Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 17:21:01 -0200
From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
       jdike@addtoit.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] emulate accessed bit for EPT
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On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 07:14:13PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:34:23PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > But perhaps a module parameter to turn accessed bit emulation off might
> > be handy in the future?
> 
> Maybe, but somebody should show that this can overall become a
> downside, which I doubt... I think if it does, the VM is to blame for
> calling page_referenced when there is no point to do so just yet.

Agreed. ACK.

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